pidemälle

Pidemälle is a Finnish adverbial/inflected form commonly used to express movement or extension toward a greater distance, duration or degree. It appears in contexts where something is continued or carried on to a further point, for example spatially ("go further"), temporally ("for a longer time") or figuratively ("advance further"). Standard texts more often show the form pidemmälle, derived from the comparative pidempi (from pitkä, "long") with the allative ending -lle ("to" or "onto").

Grammatically, the element -lle marks direction or target (allative case), so the word functions with verbs of motion or continuation, e.g. "emme voi mennä pidemmälle" ("we cannot go any further"). Synonyms or related expressions include kauemmas (more distant) in spatial contexts and pidempään (for a longer time) in temporal contexts.

Usage may vary by dialect and register; in spoken Finnish forms and pronunciations can differ from standard orthography. The stressed syllable in Finnish pronunciation is typically the first syllable, and vowel/consonant lengths are phonemic, which affects meaning and form. In dictionaries and grammar references the entry is usually listed under the comparative stem (pidempi) and its case-inflected variants.